WikkaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. XWiki

General Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Version
1.4.2
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.3.13
18.7.0
Last Release Date
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-08-31 (1 day ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-08-31 (1 day ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Writable data directory
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
None
No
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
4706 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
0
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional, PHP
Perl
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Output WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Media and Files WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
No
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki DokuWiki Oddmuse XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--Strike--
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Plugin
no example known
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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